Long didn't even begin to cover it. She shouldn't tell him the whole thing. They didn't have the time. Even if they did—even then, she wasn't sure that was the best use of it. There had to be more than that. She wanted to ask the last thing he remembered.

Did he know they did it?

Natasha tells him what she can, though, to get started. "You wouldn't believe some of it if I told you. We were on this reality show." There's a slight catch in her voice as she says it, because she knows how ridiculous it sounds. "Travel the galaxy. Drama. Romance. See your friends how up and leave again, then come back without remembering any of it.

"Every so often I guess the ratings needed a boost because something catastrophic would happen. In one system we saw a planet destroyed by an asteroid. We barely had time to evacuate it."

She's still not convinced that the Atroma hadn't been behind that too, somehow.